Buildings
There are few remains of the abbey apart from an ice-cellar. The church of Fontaine-le-Port has preserved some 16th-century wooden sculptures from the abbey church, and a chapel in the same village is also said once to have been the abbey's. The church of Héricy owns an 18th-century altar from the monastery.
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